Tag: Military Science Fiction

Book 2 of The Unity Wars is almost here! The Defense of Provenia goes live on August 14th.

The Unity Wars is going to be to be a massive, sweeping series. I won’t say outright how many books, but it’s going to be a lot, which is part of why the rapid release is happening. The Defense of Provenia is out this month, and The Alliance Rises will be out in September.

Since it is a big galaxy, Book 2 begins the second major story arc of the series. We are moving halfway around the galaxy, to meet new characters and a threat that was introduced in the freebie, Incident atTrakan: the M’tait. (I’m currently planning on three major arcs as the story progresses.)

The Alliance Rises will return to the Scalas Arc in September. Book 4 will introduce the third major arc of the story in October.

A Nightmare From the Sky

Gaumarus Pell is a Corporal in the Provenian Planetary Defense Force. He’s had a quiet career, up until the simmering rebellion on Provenia abruptly escalates to a level of violence never before seen. The visiting Knights of the Order of the Tancredus Cluster think that an off-world terrorist group might have infiltrated the rebellion.

But it is worse than that. The M’tait are coming. And when the ravagers of worlds descend from the deep black of space, nothing is ever the same again…

Interstellar War

In the thousands of years of galactic history, no single power capable has ever been of exerting its influence farther than a few light years. The expanses of space are too vast, the sheer military and logistical demands of ruling entire star systems too great. To build enough ships and recruit enough soldiers was prohibitive, even with the resources of an entire star system.

Until now. A sinister force has arisen on the edge of the galaxy. It wields technology that might just grant it galactic domination. And Valdek is in its crosshairs.

Invasion

When a plea for help from the planet Valdek reaches the Caractacan Brotherhood, the ancient order of peerless warriors is quick to respond. Their Code demands it. To fight for the weak and defenseless is their purpose. And Centurion Erekan Scalas has lived that Code through ten years and countless battles.

But even he isn’t ready for what they face on Valdek. An enemy as inhuman and ruthless as any in the thousands of years of galactic history has descended on the beleaguered world, intent on conquest. An army of men who swarm like ants, and all have the same face…

The First Galactic War Has Begun

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The war for Pontakus IX would shake the Caractacan Brotherhood to its core, and the horrors that happened on that world would have far-reaching consequences in galactic history.

Origins

Pontakus IX was a strange world to begin with. Orbiting the A-type star Pontakus at five AU, it had no axial tilt at all, resulting in permanent climate zones. There were those who insisted that life should not have existed on the planet at all, given the radiation levels and the permanent climatic stasis. And yet it did. It wasn’t complex, and it was generally tough and poisonous, but it was life.

The colonists who landed there were desperate. The surviving elites of the Eurasian Cooperation Sphere had fled the Sol system ahead of the vengeance of the Nipponese Resurgence in the east and the Novgorodian Republic in the west. They had seized one of the earliest Bergenholm-equipped ships and fled the system. Only a few of them were military personnel, and fewer still were pilots. They relied on the flight computer for their course, almost to their permanent loss.

By the time they were able to go inert and determine their location, they had fled clear out of the Orion Arm and into the Crux Arm. Frightened and desperate, they sought out the nearest world they could find with an oxygen atmosphere, which happened to be Pontakus IX.

Faced with the harshness of the environment, the fledgling colony nearly died. Most of the Eurasians had been bureaucrats or simply political leaders and their families. They had few useful skills when trying to survive in an environment inimical to human life. The handful of military leaders took over, and through brutal discipline, managed to stabilize the colony and ensure its survival. Continue reading

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To Strike at the Enemy’s Heart

The M’tait are a mystery. The galaxy teems with peoples alien to each other, but the M’tait are an implacable, inscrutable force of destruction and terror. They do not communicate. They appear, they destroy, they take, and they vanish.

The Tyrus Cluster has become the latest target. Entire worlds are reeling from the violence. And so a young strategos of the Sparat system gathers a strike force. He believes he has located one of their logistics bases. And he wants to destroy it.

But even he is not ready for what awaits the strike force in the Trakan System. And the M’tait are not the only danger…

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Origin

The Confraternity is a relatively new Military Brotherhood, but it is also one of the fastest growing. Relatively poor as far as such organizations go, the brothers of the Confraternity are eager to make their mark. Given the Confraternity’s somewhat dubious origin, this has made a number of planets extremely wary of them, but they have acquitted themselves well, putting their past successfully behind them.

Unlike the Caractacan Brotherhood, the Confraternity has no one founder. The First Brothers were in fact a mercenary company working the Sobretan Circuit. The Circuit is perhaps misnamed; there is no formal agreement as to what systems comprise it, and many trouble spots that are considered parts of it are actually outside the Sobretan Sector. Many of the worlds on the Circuit are perpetual flashpoints, many of them jointly colonized by outsystem factions that then had a falling out. They are not necessarily always made up of different races, either. Some of the nastiest wars have been human on human, or forvak on forvak.

Some of the older members of Rheloman’s Company, a mix of humans, forvaks, gordoks, and sefkhit, were talking one day, and hatched on the plan to start their own Military Brotherhood. No one can be sure of their exact motivation. The Confraternity’s founding documents are full of high ideals and a story about the First Brothers’ weariness at the constant wars and corruption they had seen. Some of it is doubtless true. There are other tales told, however, that the Confraternity was an attempt by the First Brothers to win some greater legitimacy among higher-paying clientele. It could even have been conceived as a front to allow for quick smash-and-grab robberies of rich clients who let the Confraternity in out of trust. A Military Brotherhood is far more respectable than a Private Military Company, in many eyes. Continue reading